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Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1833. Very good. Hand-colored lithograph by Lehman & Duval after Charles Bird King (445 x 338 mm). Head-and-shoulders portrait of female Oto, wife of Chief Shaumonekusse, long black braids with hair parted at center, white and black beaded ear loops, four necklaces, silver bracelet, ruffled blouse or dress top, white and black fur or shawl loosely wrapped around her shoulders, one delicate hand showing. Very mild uniform age-toning (professionally washed). Original lithograph - NOT a reproduction! Hayne Hudjihini or Eagle of Delight (ca. 1804-1822) accompanied her husband to Washington, D.C. in 1821 and so delighted those she met that she was loaded down with presents and King painted several portraits of her. She was thought to be the most beautiful of all the Native American wives who visited Washington. Unfortunately, she died of measles shortly after her return home. A portrait of her hangs in the White House Library. When leaders of various tribes came to visit… Read More

[New York], 1922. Good. Two typewritten speeches (15 pp. + 6 pp.), both measure 8.5" x 5.5" and both with manuscript corrections. Leaves toned and dust soiled, some wrinkling, paper-clip remnants and evidence of stapling. TWO TYPESCRIPT SPEECHES DOCUMENTING A METHODIST MINISTER'S EXPLORATIONS INTO THE HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE NEW YORK REGION, AND DECRYING THE ACTIONS THAT LED TO THEIR DISAPPEARANCE. Ad 1: Typewritten draft of an inspiring address entitled "The Indians of New York City and Vicinity," delivered by W.R. Blackie at a 1922 meeting of the New York State Historical Society. In this oration, he discussed the history of Native Americans of New York City and the lower Hudson Valley, including tribes that may have predated the American Indians encountered by the first white settlers. The draft for this speech concludes mournfully: "The coming of the whites spelled the death knell of the Indian in this region. How numerous they were we may not know, butthat they were deprived of… Read More

Seattle (et al.), 1925. 14 vols., large 4to., ca. 29 cm (tall) x 22 cm (wide) x 36 cm (linear), mostly in 3-hole side-stiched black leatherette covers, preserved in very good condition. Large and interesting literary archive of typescript stories and novels by "El Comancho," a popular author who specialized in stories of Native American lore and folktales, the American West and Western Expansion, the Pacific Northwest, Hunting and Fishing, and much more. Includes typescripts of "Three Boys in the Hills" and many stories published in "Outdoor Life," often with corrections and annotations (SEE FINDING AID BELOW). This appears to be the only substantial collection of "El Comancho" manuscripts in private hands. The archive, which is preserved in excellent condition, easily contains more than 3,000 typescript leaves. Some of the works appear to be unpublished. ¶ Walter Shelley Phillips (1867-1940), also known as "El Comancho," was a self-educated and self-trained naturalist, geologist, newspaper… Read More

Santa Fe, NM: Bell Editions, 1979. Incomplete set, with 13 (of 30) plates. With folio text: 29, [3] pp. (Introduction by Jamake Highwater + reprint of Jacobson's Introduction to the 1929 edition + Contents leaf + Colophon leaf; last page a little dusty), stitched with thread as issued. This copy lacks the original chemise (boards tied with string). While significantly incomplete, the price of this set has been very significantly reduced accordingly. An important series of six-color offset lithographs of paintings by four Oklahoma Kiowa tribal young men (Spencer Asah, Jack Hokeah, Steve Mopope, and Monroe Tsa-to-ke) and one woman (Miss Bou-ge-tah Smoky). This 1979 reprint was limited to 750 copies, all signed by Jamake Highwater, who wrote the new Introduction. An imperfect copy, and priced accordingly, with 13 (of 30) plates, and with the important introductory texts by Highwater and Jacobson. Our copy contains the following plates: 8: Asah Dancing 9: Kiowa Family 12: Kiowa Singers 14: Making… Read More

Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1837. Very good. Hand-colored lithograph by Lehman & Duval after Charles Bird King (445 x 338 mm). Full-length standing portrait of male Sioux chief holding a rifle, wearing brightly colored blankets, feathered headdress, necklace of grizzly bear claws, and red leggings decorated with bird feathers. Very mild uniform age-toning (professionally washed, verso of upper left corner with Japanese tissue repair). Original lithograph - NOT a reproduction! Wa-Na-Ta (ca. 1795-1848) was an influential Sioux (Yanktona, on the Minnesota River) leader who fought against the Americans in the War of 1812, even leading a charge on Fort Sandusky, whence his nickname. For his exceptional heroism he was received at the English court and promoted to Captain. After the war, however, he sided with the U.S. In 1825, he signed the Treaties of Fort Pierre and Prairie du Chien, which established peace and territorial boundaries between the Sioux, Chippewas, Sac and Foxes, and Ioways. He was… Read More

Paris: [Printed by Edmond Monnoyer, Le Mans, for] Gruel et Engelmann, 1883. Fine. Small 4to (binding size 157 x 122 mm). 655, [1] pp., all of which are enclosed within engraved borders in the manner of early 16th-century printed Books of Hours (see below). WITH: engraved frontispiece and 2 divisional title-pages, all after designs by Martin Schongauer, printed on thick paper. Bound in Paris in 1887 by Léon Gruel (signed at the foot of spine): dark maroon morocco, covers tooled in blind in the manner of early 16th-century Flemish panel-stamped bindings, five raised bands on spine, lettered direct in the second compartment, maroon silk moiré pastedowns and endleaves, turn-ins richly gilt, all edges very brightly gilt over marbling. Gruel's customary cloth chemise and flexible cloth slipcase is somewhat worn and faded, but nonetheless it has protected the binding and its contents in BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL CONDITION. What's not to love about NEO-GOTHIC FRENCH BOOKS? The present volume is a brilliant… Read More

London: [Printed in Leipzig for] The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1895. First Edition. Fair. 8vo. 421 pp. Original green cloth embossed in black and blind, gilt lettering in Persian on front cover (some foxing and age toning, minor water-staining on the edges and endpapers, endpapers with old annotations in Ottoman inside front cover, bookseller's stamp on rear endleaf, lower hinge cracked; binding stained, worn and shaken). A rough-looking but complete copy, priced accordingly. Preserved in a fitted cloth protective case. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT FROM THE GREEK INTO MODERN PERSIAN: THE ROBERT BRUCE TRANSLATION, "THE VERSION BY WHICH ALL LATER RENDITIONS ARE JUDGED." Published by the British and Foreign Bible Society, the text builds upon the 1845/6 translation of the New Testament by Mirza Sayyed Ali Khan / Henry Martyn, which was published with the Old Testament in a single volume (likewise by the British and Foreign Bible Society). This was the first… Read More

New York: Charles Wells, 1833. Hardcover. Very good. N.d. (ca. 1833). 16mo. [2], xiv, [3], 14-227, [4], 230-328, [1], iv-x pp. Contemporary beige calf elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Front free endpaper excised, binding with some minor refurbishment. Bound by Charles Well of New York (?) ¶ Charles Wells was described in New York City Directories as a bookbinder until at least 1832; thereafter he was listed as a bookseller; in 1838 he appears in the Directories as a publisher, and then in 1844 his trade is simply described as "books." There is a good possibility that the present binding came from his shop. Wells may have been the chief importer and user of English-made dies. Not in Edwin Wolf, "From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings, 1825-1855." * Early gift inscription from Ima Hitchcock to Emily Perkins, dated Dec. 25, 1856.

Paris: Guerin et Delatour, 1762. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Dates: 1762-1766. Quarto. Eight volumes in seven, COMPLETE THUS, with 202 folding engraved plates, illustrating more than 4000 coins and medals (!). The eight volumes contain numerous elaborately engraved vignettes, head- and tailpieces throughout. Collation: pp. iv; 220; 22 engraved folding plates. + xxviii, 207 (1); xviii, 255 (1); liv, 288 (1), including Tables; 136 folding engraved plates. + iv, 356; iv, 376; 32 folding engraved plates. + xii, 70; 2 folding plates; viii, 200; 10 folding plates. BINDINGS: Elegant contemporary blue morocco, smooth spines gilt, all edges gilt, lower compartments gilt with the original shelf-marks of the first owner Chretien Francois de Lamoignon (1735-1789), inner dentelles gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers (spines lightly faded to chestnut brown, one headcap chipped). ¶ The Lamoignon copy of the catalogue of the finest private numismatic collection ever formed by a single individual, a… Read More

Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithograph Co, n.d. (late 19th-century). Good. Large 4to. With 51 chromolithograph and stencil plates, plus 1 duplicate and 1 b/w. CONDITION ISSUES throughout: staining, browning, wrinkling, a few plates loose, some with tears. Contemporary brown half morocco over brown buckram; upper cover with title-label "Colored Fruits and Flowers" with the name of a former owner (or nursery?) effaced. With faults, and priced correctly. LARGE AND VERY EARLY NONCE NURSERYMAN'S SAMPLE BOOK CONTAINING 51 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS AND STENCIL PLATES FOR THE USE OF TRAVELLING SEED PEDDLERS. CATALOGUES SUCH AS THIS WERE HEAVILY USED AS VEHICLES OF SALE BY PEDDLERS THROUGHOUT AMERICA, WHICH IN 1880 WAS 72% RURAL. Herein are lovely depictions of fruit, flowers, and trees; of particular interest is the series of D.M. Dewey plates which is dated ca. 1878-1887 by the editors of the University of Rochester Nurserymen's Color Plate Book Collection. Other chromolithographs were executed by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg… Read More

Rochester, NY: Vredenburg & Co.; United Litho. & Printing Co, 1911. Very good. Large folding Nurseryman's presentation display with 10 chromolithograph seed samples, pasted on to stiff board covered with black cloth, allowing the display to be folded into a smaller, more portable size. Unfolded: 710 x 424 mm. Folded: 215 x 140 mm. Cloth with some soiling, outside edges of the four chromolithographs in the corners with evidence of biopredation (SEE IMAGES). Overall in very good antiquarian condition. ART IN THE SERVICE OF COMMERCE, BEING AN AMERICAN NURSERYMAN'S FLOWER SEED "CATALOGUE" IN THE FORM OF A PRESENTATION DISPLAY, GRAPHICALLY CONTEXTUALIZING THE PRACTICE OF SEED PEDDLERS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. The folding display format of Nurseryman's is not often encountered, and rarely mentioned in the standard literature. Whereas the actual nursery for which the present display was created is not identified, the chromolithographs were printed by the famed Rochester firms of Vredenburg & Co. and… Read More

Austin, Texas: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 27 numbered pages, original cloth binding. No dustjacket. Woodcut illustrations. ¶ Bibliographical Monograph Series No. 7, a lecture given at the [Harry Ransom] Humanities Research Center on collection development specifically within the scope of manuscripts. Edition limited to 800 copies. Woodcut illustrations by Terry Galloway.